Soleimani, Mohsen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5221-7573
Saeini, Mohammad Reza
Jalilvand, Ahmad https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0945-0852
Funding for this research was provided by:
Zanjan University of Medical Sciences (A-12-1073-6)
Article History
Accepted: 10 March 2023
First Online: 24 April 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Not applicable, because this study used the data of the national cancer registry which did not include any personal identification items. Informed consent was not obtained due to the nature of the study and the gathered data did not include any personal identification items and residential addresses of patients were coordinated within a radius of half a kilometer to address ethical issues and confidentiality.
: The ethics committee of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences has approved this study by protocol Number: IR.ZUMS.REC.1399.170. Data was gathered from the national cancer registry which was approved by the Health Systems Research (HSR) committee of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences project Number: A-12-1073-6. The research conducted for this paper has complied with ethical standards at the Zanjan University of Medical University.
: Not applicable, because this study used the national cancer registry data that did not include any Human Participants and/or Animals<b>.</b>
: Informed consent was not obtained due to the nature of the study and the gathered data did not include any personal identification items and residential addresses of patients were coordinated within a radius of half a kilometer to address ethical issues and confidentiality<b>.</b>